The Society of American Archivists' Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) are excited to announce the availability of "Records in Contexts (RiC) Update":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlZN1CQ2lVk
This webinar was originally held on December 13, 2021, and provides an update on work on the Records in Contexts (RiC) model. Daniel Pitti and Florence Clavaud of the International Council on Archives Experts Group on Archival Description (EGAD) present a brief overview of...
Registration is now open for the joint annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists' Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) and the Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section. The meeting will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, August 3, 2022 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM (CT).
Please see the event listing on SAA’s website or use this direct link to register for the joint TS-EAS meeting / EAS Section. There are no costs to attend the session and it is open to all; SAA...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards is pleased to release Encoded Archival Context – Corporate bodies, Persons, Families (EAC-CPF) 2.0.
The process for a major revision for EAC-CPF started in 2017, following the 2015 merger of the Technical Subcommittees on EAD and EAC-CPF and the Schema Development Team into the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) and was finalized in early 2022.
The main updates to the standard are
changes to...
The Society of American Archivists' (SAA) Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS), in collaboration with the Encoded Archival Standards Section Steering Committee, will be hosting a webinar in November 2022 to introduce the new version of the EAC-CPF standard.
Encoded Archival Context - Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) is an international standard maintained by SAA for encoding contextual information about persons, corporate bodies, and families related to...
Dear members of the Encoded Archival Standards community:
TS EAS is seeking to fill three international and four SAA based vacancies in TS EAS during the fall of 2022. We seek new members through open calls and will evaluate all applications. There might be an on-line call performed after we have gone through the applications.
TS EAS meets four times a year (committee members must attend at least two of these) and also has smaller teams working with specific tasks like the maintenance of the...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS), in collaboration with the Encoded Archival Standards Section Steering Committee, is excited to share the recordings of two webinars held in November 2022 that introduce the new version of the EAC-CPF standard.
Encoded Archival Context - Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) is an international standard maintained by SAA for encoding contextual information about persons, corporate bodies, and families related to...
The first session of the SAA’s Description Section and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards webinar series on controlled vocabularies is this week, on Wednesday, March 15 at 9 AM CET. This initial session will give an overview of how controlled terms are used in archival description and will provide recommendations and case studies on selecting vocabularies.
Speakers for this week's session include:
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Kerstin Arnold (Archives Portal Europe)
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The final session of the SAA’s Description Section and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards webinar series on controlled vocabularies is today, April 12th, for North American audiences at 12 PM ET. This final session will present use cases for the application of controlled vocabularies in practice, for example with reparative description projects. It will also focus on options for selecting and revising controlled vocabulary terms in archival descriptions.
Speakers for...
SAA’s Description Section and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards recently completed a three-part webinar series on controlled vocabularies. The series' presentations focused on the purpose of data value standards, how to approach their usage, and the current encoding options in Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and Encoded Archival Context (EAC-CPF). Along with other technical aspects of their implementation, the sessions provided examples of the practical application of...
Registration is now open for the joint annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS). The meeting will be held via Webex on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (CT).
Please visit the event listing on SAA’s website to register. There are no costs to attend the session and it is open to all; SAA membership is not required. While you do not need to register for the...
In the context of this year's SAA Annual Meeting Archives * Records 2023, the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) invites you to join the team for an open session on the ongoing major revision of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD).
Topics discussed as part of the revision have so far ranged:
• from the alignment between EAD and its sibling standard, the Encoded Archival Context - Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF), version 2.0...
Just a reminder to join SAA's Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) for an open session on the ongoing major revision of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD).
After a general introduction on the timeline and overarching topics of the revision process, we will have a closer look at EAD's relationshio to Records in Contexts (RiC) as well as presenting some discussion points hot of the press from the EAD sub-team meeting of the days before.
With this open session, we...
A recording of the open session on EAD revision hosted by the SAA Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) in now available on the SAA YouTube channel. The meeting was held in conjunction with the annual meeting in Washington, DC on July 26, and provided an opportunity gathering feedback from the community about the ongoing development of the standard. It also included an update on the development of Records in Contexts (RiC), and its potential impact on the EAD standard....
The Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) at the Society of American Archivists (SAA) invites you to engage with a draft of the new version of the Encoded Archival Description standard, EAD 4.0, between December 2023 and February 2024, ahead of the public call for comments. For this activity, we are specifically looking towards archival aggregators as well as software providers and developers.
Having started the major revision process with various engagement...
Alongside the public call for comments on the new version of the Encoded Archival Description standard, EAD 4.0, the Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) invites you to three informal drop-in sessions to discuss the main features of the new version. Following a brief presentation on a selected topic, each of these drop-in sessions will open the floor for your questions, comments, and suggestions.
Similar to previous TS-EAS...
Introduction to the Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
The Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) at the Society of American Archivists (SAA) held an introductory webinar on the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard on 21 May 2024, 10.30am UTC, with a focus on the East Asian archival community.
EAD is the international metadata transmission standard for hierarchical descriptions of archival records. Maintained and continuously developed further by TS-EAS, EAD is an...
The Functions Team within the Technical Committee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is happy to announce the release of a new white paper introducing EAF, a draft XML encoding standard based on the International Standard Description of Functions (ISDF) that can be incorporated into the EAS family of standards.
The white paper describes the work of the subteam and its proposed encoding solution, along with a number of examples. The white paper also includes some context about the draft and...
The Functions Team of the Technical Committee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is excited to announce a webinar to support the call for comments!
During the early summer TS-EAS released a white paper introducing EAF, a draft XML encoding standard based on the International Standard Description of Functions (ISDF) that can be incorporated into the EAS family of standards.
The white paper describes the work of the subteam and its proposed encoding solution, along with a number of examples...
The Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is responsible for the ongoing maintenance of EAD and EAC-CPF as well as the development of future companion standards, such as Encoded Archival Context for Functions.
We are seeking self-nominations from the archival community to join TS-EAS. We are seeking to fill one international and two SAA based vacancies in TS-EAS during the fall of 2024. We seek new members through open calls and will evaluate all applications.
Anyone...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is pleased to release the second draft of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) 4.0 for public review and comment.
This version includes additionally proposed changes based on suggestions and comments received from the community during the first call for comments, which ran between April and July 2024. The subcommittee would like to thank those who contributed to the review with their comments and invites all EAD users around the...
We would like to thank everyone who attended the annual meeting of the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards this past Tuesday. The presentation slides for the event are now available in the committee’s GitHub repository at https://github.com/SAA-SDT/TS-EAS-subteam-notes/blob/master/TS-EAS-Notes/2025/TS%20EAS%202025-07-22.pdf.
As mentioned, a follow-up community session on the ongoing standards revision process will be held on Thursday, August 14 at 12:30 PM ET. A link to...
A recording of this year's annual Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Description (TS-EAS) public meeting is now available to the community on SAA’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFvJYqN7aYM. The meeting gives an overview of the structure of the subcommittee and a review of its work during the 2024-2025 term. This includes a discussion of current work on the revision of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and associated standards. Future updates on this standards work...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is exploring community implementation and use of archival encoding standards and systems. The purpose of this study is to help TS-EAS better understand the usage of these standards and to guide its outreach and communications program.
Your experience as an archives professional would provide valuable insight. The survey should take approximately 5-10 minutes to complete, and all responses are anonymous and will be kept...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is exploring community implementation and use of archival encoding standards and systems. The purpose of this study is to help TS-EAS better understand the usage of these standards and to guide its outreach and communications program.
Your experience as an archives professional would provide valuable insight. The survey should take approximately 5-10 minutes to complete, and all responses are anonymous and will be kept...
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The Schedule (http://saarmrt.wordpress.com/) is your source for news about the Society of American Archivists Records Management Section. Our intention with this blog is to provide announcements, learning and education opportunities, and chances to share knowledge with other members of the RMRT in a more dynamic way than we could achieve with the SAA-provided microsite alone. (The microsite will still be the section’s repository for meeting minutes, reports and other...
